Energy Transition

Energy Transition

Details  The future will not be like the past.
Unsustainable systems often present wicked problems. Transition Engineering creates surprising opportunities and innovative perspectives by taking on wicked problems.

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The Problem is Un-Sustainability

The Problem is Un-Sustainability

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How do you define sustainability? Transition Engineering involves a shift of perspective from adding more sustainable options to shifting unsustainable energy and material production.Tags    Wicked Problem 
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The MythBusting

The MythBusting

Details  One of the projects GATE is taking on in 2019 is to prepare technology probability or "MythBusting" briefs. There is no more time to wait for technologies to come along if the probability is small that they will work, will be viable, or will actually solve a problem if they did work.

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Global Association for Transition Engineering

Delivering disruptive discoveries for the new century 

  Electricity

  Cities

  Fuels

  Buildings

  Products & materials

  Food and Fish

  Forests and Farms

  Transport

Anyone in any field can join the Transition Engineering movement. Transition Engineers design and carry out the projects of change. We work from a systems perspective to strategically plan changes to today's engineered systems so they fit into the future we want. Transition involves the whole of society, economy, law, ecology, infrastructure, and energy and material supply chains. We use the Interdisciplinary Transition, Innovation, Management and Engineering (InTIME) methodology to generate new opportunities through disruptive ideas. These new ideas are developed into shift projects with the mission of long-term engineering and management of the 80% fossil fuel production decline required to realize global warming mitigation targets. Transition Engineering achieves  the COP21 Targets and Sustainable Development Goals, one project at a time.

Let's Act InTIME 

The GATE is opening an international InTIME consortium of universities and organisations. We aim to kick-start the movement during 2019. We need help on this campaign. We have the foundations to launch the transition. Help us get started with a generous donation and your membership.  

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About Transition Engineering

About Transition Engineering

Details  The next big challenge for all engineering fields is handling wicked problems. Wicked problems are successful and profitable engineered systems that are also unsustainable. Our energy and material systems provide huge benefits and conveniences, and they make money. But they also are unsustainable, incur unacceptable external costs, and pose environmental and social risks. Transition Engineering is emerging to deal with wicked problems. The 7-step approach results in innovative transition shift projects. Explore the Knowledge and Training resources where GATE members share experience with innovating, engineering and managing transition shift projects.
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Join or Support the Movement

Join or Support the Movement

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Affiliate - Create an account and make a donation to support the movement
Associate - Students and professionals in Engineering or other disciplines can create an account, engage in activities and gain access to training
Member - Engineers in any discipline with work experience in shift projects can create an account, engage in activities, gain access to training and lodge an application for MGATE standing

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GATE Organization

GATE Organization

Details  Pervasive risks of un-sustainability pose challenges in all disciplines.We don't need another interest group, but we do need urgent action. All engineering disciplines are responsible for the projects that will change engineered systems to prevent what is preventable. We are inspired by history - 100 years ago 62 engineers in New York got together and started what would become Safety Engineering, and that action has changed the world. Now, we will change the future - one engineering project at a time. GATE is a peer-to-peer organization set up to facilitate the agile learning needed for the emergence of a new discipline - Transition Engineering.
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